To: Leisler
I am sorry but Ms. Shriver doesn't deserve this disdain. At the time that Rose Marie was lobotomized it was an attempt to help her. It was a new form of treatment for the mentally retarded and they believed they were acting in her best interests. As much as I despise Joe Kennedy there is no reason to assume that he had anything but good intentions towards Rose Marie. Her institutionalization was very upsetting to him and the rest of the family.
Eunice Shriver is a very good person, though I dislike most of her relatives, she should not be lumped in with the rest of them. And Special Olympics is an exceptional good for society.
21 posted on
08/07/2009 1:25:03 PM PDT by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Jim from C-Town
Very well said. I will add my dittos. She doesn’t deserve our disdain or contempt.
23 posted on
08/07/2009 1:34:37 PM PDT by
carton253
(Ask me about Throw Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: Jim from C-Town
RM was very little of a problem, except in image wise, which of course is everything to a Kennedy. They didn’t care about RM, they cared about themselves.
Irish American Caligulas.
24 posted on
08/07/2009 1:36:51 PM PDT by
Leisler
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